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I always thought that maybe if Musk was gone someday, it would be ok to like Tesla’s again… Fuck Tesla Forever.
Tesla should seek to oust Elon from the company. He’s ruining it. Cybertruck, falling sales, and important people heading for the exits.
Tesla should seek to oust Elon from the company.
They can’t. The only thing propping up the ludicrous stock price is the myth of “Elon Musk, Super genius” and the legions of Musk fanboys. If they kick Musk out they lose both and the stock will tank. So they’ve got to keep him in place, even as he runs the company into the ground.
The myth is gone.
For you and most rational people, but there are still enough Muskovites out there buying into the snake oil salesman’s bullshit that Tesla’s market cap remains above Toyota’s. The delusional beliefs of those sad losers is the only thing keeping the stock price afloat and every major Tesla shareholder, most of all Elon himself, knows it.
I have a handful of tankie coworkers who absolutely still believe that he’s a genius. They feel that way about other billionaires too.
A Tankie is a Communist who likes Stalin’s method of achieving communism.
That there’s a bootlicker.
That’s lovely, but conservatives aren’t the market for solar panels and electric cars.
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I think you were looking for the word “ancap” instead.
Are your tankie friends buying tesla vehicles?
Edit - real question. I have doubts his neo nazi/ libertarian followers are buying EVs because they seem to actively want to harm the environment as much as possible.
I’m genuinely curious what the tankie demographic is like. I could see them as off the grid solar/battery doomsday prepper types.
It’s not. He even has defenders on Lemmy. Say that he has no experience as an engineer when it comes to cars and rockets and they come crawling out of the woodwork with quotes from people who worship him saying he’s totally an engineering genius.
“But he had the brilliant idea to use robots in automotive manufacturing!” /s
Judging by the stock value - not at all. Enough ppl are THAT optimistic.
Stock value can take a very long time to adjust. Once consumers and institutions buy a stock, they can’t sell it easily. It’s either a loss to sell it if they bought at a peak so they wait it out or if it’s up and they want out, selling needs to be spread out to limit capital gains tax. If it’s an institution with a large holding, it will cause the stock to drop before they’re out.
Mostly agree, but. As far as I understand it, for TSLA the majority of the bull run is due to relatively small investors riding the hype. Big stakes are indeed rare to change hands, and mostly outside the marketplaces. Should the small guys really change their mind on the stocks, they (or at least the first wave) will easily dump it, and that will move the market by a lot. We can probably see it in YTD results, but still there is no dumping, in my opinion. Just a correction, so far.
Personally would not buy now, though )
Elon Musk pushes for $56bn pay deal for Elin Musk.
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I would pay $56bn to watch him get eaten alive by a bear.
there was nothing he hated more, “but it must be done”.
sure. he’s in agony. pure pain. insurmountable suffering
Maybe the board can buy him out of the company at some point. It might actually safe the company without him at the top
If he weren’t involved, I’d go back to considering a Tesla
This news is frustrating:
- I am put off by the judge ruling against it because “it’s unfair to shareholders”. It’s unfair to a lot of people, especially in the wake of layoffs. If the law does not protect the basic necessities for working Americans, then the law needs changing.
- How many of Elon’s workers could get paid a living wage for that $56bn? If he passed it up could he instead stop trying to oppose unions and make some life-changing concessions for his employees?
- Even putting that aside, how is that money going to change Elon’s life? As in the daily experience of what he eats, vacation opportunities, housing, etc? Because money is kind of like water - it’s incredibly important if you don’t have enough, but once you have more than you could use the only reason to keep hoarding it is restricting others’ access for pride, greed, or leverage (i.e. purchasing influence).
I’m not even as far left of center as I probably sound. I believe that different economic classes should exist or people aren’t motivated - you need to pay surgeons well in order to get enough surgeons. However, “the floor” should be raised to ensure housing/food/utilities security at the cost of “the ceiling” being lowered (or existing at all). Oxfam says a wealth tax of 5% on multi-millionaires/billionaires would solve world hunger in 10 years, lift 2 billion out of poverty, and much more. As of 2023 the bottom half of the USA, as in about 170ish million citizens, only have access to 3% of America’s wealth while the top 10% control just over 66% of wealth. Deals like this, coupled with the mass layoffs across multiple industries, is only making that obscene inequality worse.
How many of Elon’s workers could get paid a living wage for that $56bn?
There are 140,000 employees, so each one could get $400,000. That is WAY more than a liveable wage. He could give every single person in his company $200,000 and STILL have $28B leftover for his bonus. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a billion, and I’m a pretty imaginative person who makes a lot of money. If someone said to me, “I can give you $56B, or I can give you $28B and 140,000 other people $200,000. You choose.” I would gladly give all of those 140,000 people handjobs by me personally along with that $200k. It might take awhile to give all those handjobs, but I’d commit to it for $28B.
It would take 972 days of 12 hours per day giving 5 minute long handjobs. Roughly 3 years of indentured servitude to get $28B. Worth it.
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Raise the floor too high and suddenly nobody needs to sign up to be a murderer for hire to go to college. Suddenly people who actually know how the sector functions can create their own firms. Suddenly the idea of an industry being to big to fail and getting a bailout every decade isn’t as necessary. Suddenly your carefully protected tax shields aren’t quite so effective.
Any extreme is bad, that’s true. But there’s a lot of room in between current affairs and the situation you’re describing. Many of the happiest, healthiest nations on Earth (prime example being Nordic nations) have a model featuring government intervention in the economy and strong social nets while still being capitalist.
I don’t know how many employees Tesla has, but that literally could turn 56,000 employees into millionaires. Well, not literally, because taxes, but you get the idea.
Exactly, or put it in a fund collecting even low-level interest and give that many a raise of 50 grand/year for 20 years.
They have 140,000 employees, so they could make $400k/year.
However, the deal was rejected by a US judge in January who described it as “an unfathomable sum”.
Oh so that’s why he laid off all those people.
$56 billion could pay 56 thousand workers $100k per year for ten years straight.
Instead they laid of thousands of workers not making anywhere near that sum.
Yet this one man deserves all that “value” he personally surely generated.
Yuuuup
He should be paying the company $56 billion in damages for the dumb cybertruck he pushed through.
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how long until shareholders revolt considering elon has cost the company billions.
